Submission to Joint Parliamentary Committee on FCA Amendment Bill 2023
To The Joint Secretary (JM), Lok Sabha Secretariat, Room No 440, Parliament House Annexe, New Delhi – 110001 Subject: Comments of Aravalli Bachao Citizens Movement to the FCA Act (Proposed Amendments) 2023 Greetings from the Aravalli Bachao Citizens Movement working to save the Aravallis across all 4 states from destruction by illegal mining, encroachments, commercialisation,…
CONSERVATIONISTS CALL FOR SCRAPPING OF ZOO SAFARI PROJECT AND SUGGEST AN ALTERNATIVE PLAN FOR CONSERVING 10000 ACRES OF NCR ARAVALLIS
“With India being one of the most vulnerable nations to climate change impacts, if the Aravallis are not protected as a conservation belt and opened for commercialisation, it will lead to increase in air pollution and water shortage making India’s National Capital Region uninhabitable. Aravalli zoo safari project in its current avatar needs to be…
UNCHECKED TOURISM IN ECO SENSITIVE REGIONS WILL SPELL DISASTER, BE IT THE HIMALAYAS OR THE ARAVALLIS
The last few days of January 2023 has seen thousands of citizens from across India support and observe the climate fast called by the educationist and environmentalist Sonam Wangchuk to bring attention on how unchecked mass tourism and development is aggravating the impacts of climate change and threatening the survival of Ladakh. India is one…
OBJECTIONS BY LEADING CONSERVATIONISTS TO THE ZOO SAFARI PROPOSED IN THE ARAVALLIS
In April 2022, Haryana Chief Minister Mr. Manohar Lal Khattar announced plans for a safari in 10,000 acres in the Aravalli range in Gurugram and Nuh districts of India’s National Capital Region. Aravalli Bachao Citizens Movement along with leading conservationists of India have sent their objections regarding this project to the government and given recommendations.…
750 NCR SCHOOL CHILDREN MARKED 13TH DECEMBER 2022 AS ARAVALLI DAY
As India’s National Capital Region remains gripped in severe air pollution,750 school students from Gurgaon and Faridabad left their class rooms on Tuesday 13 December 2022 to celebrate “Aravalli Day”. The young ones were joined by their teachers, Dr Rajendra Singh popularly known as the Waterman of India, Diwan Singh from the Ridge Bachao Andolan,…
ON CHILDREN’S DAY STUDENTS ASK GOVERNMENT TO FULFILL PROMISES MADE TO THEM FOR ARAVALLI PROTECTION
As India’s National Capital Region reels under the impacts of severe air pollution, more than 30 children left the Children’s Day celebrations in their schools to meet in the sacred Aravalli forest of Manger Bani on the Gurugram – Faridabad road and discuss what they should collectively do to demand their right for clean air.…
WILL THE GOVERNMENT LISTEN TO VOICES OF 2.4 LAKH CITIZENS ASKING FOR REVISION IN NCR DRAFT PLAN 2041
In the months of September and October 2022, letters and signatures from more than 2,40,000 citizens across all the 4 NCR states asking for removal of environmental dilutions in the ill conceived NCR Draft Regional Plan 2041 have been submitted to 8 government offices: Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Environment Forest & Climate Change, Ministry…
SCHOOL CHILDREN MEET GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES TO DEMAND PROTECTION OF ARAVALLIS AND REVISE NCR DRAFT PLAN 2041
100 children in the age group of 10 to 15 years from different cities in India’s National Capital Region left their schools over 2 days on 13th and 14th of September 2022 to go and knock on the doors of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs,…
CITIZENS DO A SERIES OF EVENTS IN THE ARAVALLIS TO HIGHLIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL DILUTIONS IN NCR DRAFT PLAN 2041
CITIZENS MEET AMIDST HEAVY RAINS A group of thirty+ concerned citizens walked in the Aravalli hills near Bandhwari village in Gurugram district, Haryana amidst heavy rain on Sunday, 7th August 2022. As the city experienced thunderstorms and massive rain, this group of adults and children trekked silently for a few hours engaging in many nature based…
CITIZENS GATHER IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF DELHI TO MARK THEIR DISAPPROVAL OF NCR DRAFT PLAN 2041
1st EVENT: CITIZENS GATHER AT THE BANKS OF THE YAMUNA RIVER As a group of more than 100 men, women and children planted saplings close to the Yamuna river in Delhi to celebrate the nation’s 75th independence day on the 14th of August 2022, they could not help but wonder as to why the government…
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